Saturday, November 23, 2013

A really nice mention and image in The Washington Post last week:

"Kretz is in a category by herself. Working in silverpoint,
an archaic drawing technique that leaves fine, ghostly metallic lines
on a gessoed surface, the artist has created miniature pictures of
tornadoes on the concave surface of two ordinary tablespoons. The images
are barely an inch wide (you have to get right on top of them to see
them), but their message packs a punch. That’s because of Kretz’s
delivery, which harnesses the metaphorical power of an ordinary
household object to domesticate nature’s fury.

The artist's
point is less representational than conceptual. She's interested in
disturbances that that aren't atmospheric so much as familial: divorce,
dysfunction, and other transformative dynamics.

For Kretz, a tempest in a teapot can be just as devastating as one on the open prairie."

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Kate Kretz attended The Sorbonne in Paris, earned her BFA from SUNY Binghamton, and her MFA from The University of Georgia. She was BFA Director and an Associate Professor of Art at FIU in Miami for ten years. She currently works in her studio and gives lectures and workshops at various universities.